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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Say Anything Alerts

Many of you may have noticed the ad at the bottom of the right sidebar for Say Anything Alerts, featuring an ugly bouncing picture of me.  The ad is for a new program developed by my friends at Super Alerts which sends pop-up alerts for website updates to the desktops of users.  Their company is called Super Alerts and they’re creating custom programs, branded with logo and theme design, for each website.

They created an alerts program for Say Anything as an example they can use to promote their products to future clients.  Here’s what a pop-up looks like on your desktop:

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Here’s what the alerts control panel looks like:

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You can download the application by clicking here, or clicking on that goofy-looking ad.

I know everyone reads blogs differently, and that there’s probably about as many different ways for keeping up with blogs as there are readers, but I’d encourage you all to at least give this one a shot.  For North Dakota readers you can also set it to get alerts from the Bismarck Tribune, and The Fargo Forum, and for national readers eventually you’ll have the ability to add in rss feeds from other sites to get alerts from them as well.

Again, just give it a shot.  I think you’ll all like it.

Comments

Sounds interesting, the nerd in me is compelled to try it out.

I found another way to easily lurk at the postings here at SA if you have a google account.

http://www.google.com/ig will let you set up a nifty customized home page.  One module to add is ‘google reader’ which can be setup to get the SA (and other) feeds.

This way, on a single page can have your latest posts, local weather, stocks, and whatever else you want.

fwiw.

RealManOfGenius on August 8, 2007 at 06:36 pm

We’ve worked quite a bit on it, so tell us what you like and what you don’t like.

On certain alerts, mostly popular current political figures, you’ll see “bobbleheads” show up as in the pic above.


Why should we have less abortions if you’re not really killing someone?

george on August 8, 2007 at 07:45 pm

It says I can’t use the service to operate nuclear services so I don’t know if I’ll get it now.
rolleyes


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Anna on August 8, 2007 at 09:15 pm

We didn’t know you were interested in operating “Nuclear services” with it Anna rasberry Maybe we can put that in as a programming request just for you in the next version… :D

Ace25 on August 9, 2007 at 05:50 am

Is there any way to just get a goofy picture of rob to show up on my desktop every few minutes?

electnixon on August 9, 2007 at 05:55 am
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Is there any way to just get a goofy picture of rob to show up on my desktop every few minutes?

I suppose I could just email the pictures to you…


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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